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About the Author Dr. John Xu (also known as Jack Xu) is a seasoned system architect. He was chief architect for large distributed portals. He also developed search engine and Java forums. He can be reached by email xixu@yahoo.com. Struts framework provides tile library that can divide UI -- web page -- into different areas (tiles). Tile library makes web application look and feel more consistent and easy to change. This tutorial, I will show simple steps of creating tiles for web pages. 1. Create a layout. 2. Use Definition file 3. Create web page with tile tags. You should have struts installed on Tomcat server. If you don??t know how to install struts and Tomcat, you may refer to their documents, or read the article Step 1. Create a layout Assume we create a web page that has header, body and footer tiles (sections). I create a web page layout called MyLayout.jsp page. List 1. MyLayout.jsp <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld" prefix="html"%> <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-bean.tld" prefix="html"%> <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-tiles.tld" prefix="tiles"%> <html:html> <head> <title><bean:message key="application.title"/></title> </head> <body> <tiles:insert attribute="header"/> <tiles:insert attribute="body"/> <tiles:insert attribute="footer"/> </body> </html:html> application.title is defined in your struts application resource file. Step 2. Use definition file If some tiles in MyLayout.jsp appears in other pages in web application, the best practice is to put these common tiles to a definition file. Assume header and footer tiles are common tiles, you may write a definition file including these two tiles List 2. CommonTile.jsp <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-tiles.tld" prefix="tiles"%> <tiles:definition id="usanalyst.common" page="MyLayout.jsp" scope="request"> <tiles:put name="header" value="myHeader.jsp" /> <tiles:put name="footer" value="myFooter.jsp" /> </tiles:definition> where myHeader.jsp is your header jsp file, and myFooter.jsp is your footer jsp file. Step 3. Create web page with tile tags Now we create the web page myPage.jsp List 3. myPage.jsp <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-tiles.tld" prefix="tiles"%> <%@ include file="CommonTile.jsp" %> <tiles:insert beanName="usanalyst.common" beanScope="request"> <tiles:put name="body" value="body.jsp" /> </tiles:insert> where body.jsp is the jsp page you implement for body section. Summary I have shown how easy the struts tile can be implemented with 3 simple steps. Now try to use tile in your struts applications.

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